Tag: boat people

The beginning of the end of the Refugee Convention is under way in Australia. Don't know what happened last Friday? Go no further than this post. Brendan has put together a digest of media articles and opinions concerning the recent agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) to process refugees.

Increasing rates of self-harm and a string of suicides reveal a troubling picture of Australian immigration detention centres. Deteriorating conditions are taking their toll on asylum seekers, yet the Australian government is persisting with its policy of mandatory detention. Susannah Waters speaks to some people at the heart of the issue, and discovers the extent to which asylum seekers are...

Offshore processing of asylum seekers is dead. For now. But does this indicate a new era of clean conscience for our government? A born-again Machine Gun Preacher-like about face towards a more humane approach to those who need our help? Will it mean that Labor will start representing those on the left who originally stood tall with them, and desist...

The other week, Triple J's Hack featured a IV-part series looking at the decade since 9/11. One of the interviewees, an academic from ANU, spoke of how 9/11 and the subsequent conflicts have been a catalyst for increased migration. In particular, of forced migration; or in Australian terms, 'why people are getting on bloody boats and coming to our shores'....

Last night, SBS Australia aired the first episode of groundbreaking new show, Go Back To Where You Came From. In this post, Sarah Forsterling outlines her reaction to the show, and wonders whether it will have any impact on the wider debate about asylum seekers worldwide.